expressway
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
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Fire officials requested mandatory evacuations for a large area north of Ramona Expressway and east of Lake Perris on Friday afternoon.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
This bold diagonal, cut through the prim Quaker street grid, produced a great many awkwardly shaped blocks, including the pointy trapezoid between the Parkway and the Vine Street Expressway that houses Calder Gardens.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025
A classic example was the Van Wyck Expressway, which Moses built in Queens in 1950.
From Slate • Aug. 28, 2024
Expressway traffic is especially heavy across China with the start of a five-day national holiday on Wednesday.
From New York Times • May 1, 2024
Our last stop, toward dusk, was an abandoned tenement building beside an elevated ramp of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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